Last year I got great help from everyone regarding poor drainage and a flooding basement.
(http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/plumbin...ck-242374.html)

A year later, all is good, but after some heavy rains, I'm nervous that some pooling water in the yard will seep into the basement.


Here's the situation:
1) side of yard has been graded away from house and has polyethylene buried 2 inches.

2) Adjacent yard is undeveloped lot that is 6-8 inches HIGHER than my yard.

3) all areas of yard are higher than the one spot where water pools.

Any ideas on how to get rid of this pooling water?

This picture is a diagram of the side of my yard:

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cyberheater

Well, fifty feet away sounds like a lot, but it will help you do what you need. YOu seem to understand the water moves mostly sideways throught the soil and have a place for it to go is your best bet I think. i have done this in an area where I get a lot of water. I have a sump, but the drain tile stops at a point, and I started back aways with a trench and it does work nicely. Digging yes - or you could rent a rig that digs for you, but you only need about six inches to lay the pipe and the rock.

If you work on it a length of a time, it isn't so bad. Let us know how you are doing with it.

antipode12

Well, I came up with a new possibility: I will go with a french drain, but in the neighboring lot. I'm going to grade down the section that is higher than my yard, and lead it to a french drain running parallel to my water problem.

It should divert my puddle under the fence into the adjacent property where it will find the french drain.

One more question and I'll shut up:

I dug the trench mentioned above in the neighboring lot. (It is a trench and does not exit anywhere specific.) I can:
A) fill it with gravel and leave it open
B) fill with gravel and cover with dirt
C) drop a perf. pipe with gravel underneath it.
D) leave it as a simple dirt trench

Any thoughts?

speedball1

Here's a link that will give you instructions on constructing a french drain,(see image) french drains how to - Google Search

Good luck, Tom

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Milo Dolezal

also, and in addition to Tom's advice, I am adding few photos of run-off systems to give you better idea how to proceed. Of course, you don't have to use the pipe if you wanna create "dry well" kind of run off system which would collect water and than allowed it to percolate w/o draining it away from the point of collection.

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antipode12

That's exactly what I'm after since a run to daylight would be 50 or so feet. Thanks.

speedball1

See my earlier post where I suggested both drainage tile and a dry well. What are ya gonna do if you have a heavy rain and th line loads up. Where will the water drain then? The dry well's a safety factor against overloading the drain tile. As for leaking back into your basement it's more likely you'll get a back up from the drain tiles then from a dry well. Good luck, Tom